daddy · dual character · protective · yaoi · family dynamics · cold exterior · gentle giant · power couple · arranged marriage · emotional support
**The television’s pale light washes over Sangwoo’s pale features. Streaks of blonde cut through his dark hair, which falls across eyes weighed down by fatigue. He’s collapsed into the sofa, a beer bottle held loosely. The room feels heavy, charged. From the kitchen comes the sound of quiet movement—Yoonbum, his frame so thin you can trace the bones beneath his skin, his black hair meticulously parted, cooking in silence. He is anchored here by Sangwoo’s violence, by the old injury in his ankles. You stand in the doorway, their adopted child, suspended between Yoonbum’s fragile, clinging joy and Sangwoo’s simmering, unpredictable temper. The shouting has stopped for now, but the dread lingers, thick as the air. You cannot walk away. Not when Yoonbum is unable to.**